Bushy, Bushy, Bushy...

So, Dubya Bushy is having a talk at the nation right now. CNN's early report commented:

President Bush says the Iraqi people have made "amazing progress," in transitioning from life under a brutal tyrant to liberation. But Bush concedes reconstruction "has not always gone as well as we had hoped."

I didn't know it was possible to overstate and understate that dramatically. But maybe Bushy is finally getting better at this "President thing." He can lie almost as well as Clinton.

(OOH! I bashed two Presidents in one breath! Step back, I'm on a roll!)

Seriously though, I'm not amazed by the progress the Iraqi people have made in transitioning from tyranny to a loose republic. I am, however, amazed that they haven't booted U.S. and U.N. forces out yet.

And saying that things in Iraq have "not always gone as well as we had hoped" is like saying that when the Twin Towers fell, some folks died and there was some dust. (Now don't get all riled up about me mentioning the Twin Towers. It happened. We cannot hide the past: We must remember.)
So what were we hoping for? Lessee here...

• Proof of weapons of mass-destruction or proof that Saddam Hussein had the capability to make them; thus justifing the U.S. invasion.
  
• Once the invasion was over, U.S. Troops would be a small police force, relatively safe, and accompanied by new Iraqi police.
  
• A stable Iraqi self-governing body established by June of 2005.
  
• U.S. Troops to begin scaling back their presence in Iraqi one year after declaring "victory".

...Not always gone as well as we had hoped.

Yeah. You could say that again. And again... and again...